In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven.

When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants.

Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

I love a life whose plot is simple.